Earlier this year, Romania was shaken by revelations that elderly and disabled residents at the country's care homes were being beaten, underfed, and neglected. Further investigations have revealed a fundamentally broken system, where care home residents were viewed as mere assets.
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Romania's Family and Youth Minister Gabriela Firea has resigned, the second member of Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu's leftist-led government to become a casualty of a national scandal over revelations about the abusive treatment of people interned in a complex of private retirement homes.
Police have carried out searches of the houses of two former employees of jailed opposition politician Aleksei Navalny's headquarters in the cities of Tambov and Tver for unspecified reasons.
BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romania s minister for family affairs, Gabriela Firea, resigned her post on Friday amid a scandal over alleged abuses at care homes for the elderly and disabled.